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Peer reviewedAllen, J. Scott, Jr.; Drabman, Ronald S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
The investigation assessed whether 6 learning-disabled boys (ages 10-12) who were taking stimulant medication reported fewer adaptive attributions in academic situations than their 8 nonmedicated peers. Boys who were not taking medication reported more internal-effort attributions in failure situations than boys who were taking medication.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Drug Therapy, Failure, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedDembo, Myron H.; Vaugn, Wendy – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
Forty elementary-school learning-disabled children completed a design assembly task and a vocabulary task. Results indicated a significant performance (success and failure)-by-maternal involvement (presence and absence) interaction for children's attributional ratings of effort, task difficulty, and luck, and for mothers' attributional ratings of…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Failure
